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Renée Vivien

1877 - 1909

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Renée Vivien (born Pauline Mary Tarn; 11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was one of the first twentieth-century lesbian British poets. [p.12] She wrote in French, in the style of the Symbolistes and the Parnassiens. A high-profile lesbian in the Paris of the Belle Époque, she is notable for her work, which has received more attention following a recent revival of interest in Sapphic verse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renée Vivien has received more than 338,064 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Renée Vivien is the 2,443rd most popular writer (up from 2,458th in 2019), the 1,801st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,882nd in 2019) and the 197th most popular British Writer.

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  • 24

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Notable Works

La Dame à la louve
1904
Cendres et poussières
1902
Brumes de fjords
1902
Dame à la Louve
2017
À l'heure des Mains Jointes
Lesbians, Fiction, Translations into English
1906
Une femme M'apparut--
1905

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Renée Vivien ranks 2,443 out of 7,302. Before her are Dorothy L. Sayers, Ai Qing, Ikki Kita, Johann Peter Hebel, Louise Colet, and George Meredith. After her are Justus of Tiberias, Johann Karl August Musäus, Petar Preradović, E. Nesbit, Chariton, and Didymus Chalcenterus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Renée Vivien ranks 68. Before her are Wilhelm Filchner, Henri Breuil, Rosika Schwimmer, Erik Scavenius, Ivy Lee, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. After her are Sergei Bortkiewicz, James Montgomery Flagg, Alfredo Guzzoni, Alice B. Toklas, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, and Georges Catroux. Among people deceased in 1909, Renée Vivien ranks 37. Before her are Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Karl Krumbacher, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Afonso Pena, and George Meredith. After her are George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Joshua Slocum, Catulle Mendès, John Millington Synge, Zhang Zhidong, and Friedrich Martens.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Renée Vivien ranks 1,801 out of 8,785. Before her are Sarah Miles (1941), Cynegils (575), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), Oliver Lodge (1851), Albert F. Mummery (1855), and George Meredith (1828). After her are E. Nesbit (1858), Ernest Bevin (1881), Sam Worthington (1976), John Bevis (1695), Elizabeth Tudor (1492), and Michael Sheen (1969).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Renée Vivien ranks 197. Before her are Leonard Woolf (1880), Taliesin (518), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), and George Meredith (1828). After her are E. Nesbit (1858), William Beckford (1760), Dick Francis (1920), Christopher Priest (1943), Richard Adams (1920), and Peter Shaffer (1926).

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